Each story and poem in this volume is a small treasure, as are the lovely old engravings portraying charity in action. Some acts of giving may appear simple -- such as one in which a tired and late-for-work Minneapolis nurse takes time out to help an elderly woman home on a wretchedly-cold evening. Others seem more complex -- as one in which a Colorado man takes on the role of opening up the life of a blind, deaf and mute girl encountered on a faraway island. In both these instances, and most others in this book, the giver receives back something unexpected and huge. Reading this book is a journey full of surprises, the greatest of which may be what you, the reader, discover about your own capacity to be generous.
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"A real soul lifter." -- Clive Cussler
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"These powerful stories of compassion move us to tears; the triumphs of these individuals make us realize that behind every evening-news statistic is a living, breathing human. I'm humbled and transformed by reading this book." -Kathie Lee Gifford.
"CHARITY is a spiritually enriching saga of people who reach out and touch the lives of others. A real soul lifter." -Clive Cussler, author of Atlantis Found and other bestsellers.
"These evocative vignettes of compassion show that we really are created in God's image." - Marvin Olasky, author of The Tragedy of American Compassion and Compassionate Conservatism.
"Touching, powerful and sweet, these stories remind us how much we are all one family." -Peter Yarrow, folksinger and founder of Peter, Paul and Mary.
"These authentic, compelling stories of gifts offered, accepted and returned in a new way enrich us all. CHARITY reminds us that anyone who feeds the hungry or holds a child's hand is part of an ennobling cycle of love." -Gretchen Buchenholz, Director of the Association to Benefit Children
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really touching, truly humane stories,
By Miros Lee "Miros" (New York City, New York, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Charity: True Stories of Giving and Receiving (Virtue Victorious) (Paperback)
It's so a cold world out there. you are amid crowds of people who are blunt and icy. But in them are warm-heated people, who are willing to give their hands to you when you are in rainy days. This book Charity shows the deep and warm hearts in other persons. There are so many perons who have tears in their eyes. Charity illustrates the integrity of human spirits. Victories of man, victories of human, and victories of human being. Charity is a book of Jewelry which contains the true face of human and the true face of God.
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Like Finding a Treasure!,
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This review is from: Charity: True Stories of Giving and Receiving (Virtue Victorious) (Paperback)
I can't believe more people don't know about this book because it contains gems that really sparkle, that catch the light in profound or surprising ways. Its stories are all true and many of its American (and a few British) voices are distinctive. Charity has been much in the news lately. This book gets inside charity---not, for the most part, big organizated institutional charities, but giving in a more personal way. What goes through a person's head who has volunteered to take care of a sick stranger? Or of a young mother who is forced to take her little children to a soup kitchen to eat? We not only hear these people---much of the writing in the book is so vivid we feel as if we are seeing them, too. Some stories really have global significance, as one by a reporter who lost his way in the mountains of Afghanistan and then finally was rescued and fed by an Afghani shepard. It was the American who needed the charity and it was given to him by a poor, poor Moslem in a war zone. Only a few of Charity's stories seem silly or have pat endings---this is not your usual inspiration collection. I'm glad my sister gave me a copy because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered it. But now that I have, I would recommend it to almost everyone I know.
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